Christian Ganczarski

Christian Ganczarski (1966-) was a German al-Qaeda member and the mastermind of the 2002 Ghriba synagogue bombing in Tunisia.

Biography
Christian Ganczarski was born in 1966 in Gliwice, Upper Silesia, Poland, but he acquired German citizenship and later converted to Islam. He would become a top al-Qaeda leader, and in 2002 he engaged in a phone call with Niser bin Muhammad Nasar Nawar just before the 2002 Ghriba synagogue bombing, which killed 19 people and wounded over 30. He was arrested at the Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, France shortly afterwards, and in February 2009 he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the bombing.